"I'd Trade The Gold Medal Before The Depression" - Steve Mesler - #74

"I'd Trade The Gold Medal Before The Depression" - Steve Mesler - #74

Steve Mesler is an Olympic gold medalist bobsledder, three-time Olympian, co-founder of Classroom Champions, and an executive performance coach. What happens after you achieve the one thing you've chased your whole life? Steve won gold in Vancouver and, years later, found himself crying alone on his couch every morning, standing on a train platform thinking his family would be better off without him. So why does reaching the summit so often leave high performers emptier than before, and what actually fills the gap? Expect to learn why Steve decided he would simply never get injured again and why it worked, what the "life algorithm" is and how to use it on any goal, why achievement runs on toxic jet fuel and what to burn instead, how to stack reasons to do the hard thing when one reason isn't enough, why the arrival fallacy quietly wrecks champions, how to actually practice satisfaction and gratitude in your body, why connection is wired into us at a survival level, and much more… - 0:00 "I'm Just Not Going To Get Hurt Anymore" 3:49 If You Look For A Problem, You'll Find One 5:32 The Life Algorithm Explained 10:54 He Loved Winning, Not Bobsled 14:34 Stacking Reasons To Get Out Of Bed 21:49 Toxic Jet Fuel vs. Satisfaction 25:32 The Arrival Fallacy & Gold Medal Syndrome 33:28 Masculinity, Connection & The Tribe 43:27 The Big Five Goals Framework 47:13 A Live Lesson In Feeling Satisfied 54:44 The Most Important Question Technique 58:08 When Depression Hit After Gold 1:02:30 The Train Platform & "I'd Trade The Gold" 1:10:24 Climbing Out: Connection & Asking For Help 1:17:19 Closing Questions: Book & Guest Recs - Save hundreds on the best saunas on the market: HERE [https://www.heavenlyheatsaunas.com/MERRILL] (use code MERRILL) Save on an amazing cold plunge: HERE [https://tidd.ly/4fqqzf1] (use code MERRILL) - Thank You For Listening To The Chase Merrill Podcast - Get in touch in the comments below or head: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/chasecmerrill/] - Steve's Instagram: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/steve.mesler/] Steve's website: HERE [https://www.stevemesler.net/]

You Have More Free Time Than You Think - Laura Vanderkam - #73

Laura Vanderkam is an author, journalist, and speaker focused on time management and productivity. What's actually getting in the way of using our time well? Most people insist they have no free time, yet the same hours slip away to doom scrolling and busywork every single day. So is the problem really a lack of time, or the belief that we don't have any? Expect to learn why we don't build the lives we want by saving time, how tracking a single 168-hour week changes the way you see your schedule, why you should plan your week on Friday instead of Monday, what the "golden hours" are and how to stop wasting your weekday evenings, why one big adventure and one little adventure a week makes time feel bigger, how the List of 100 Dreams reveals what you actually want to do, why you have far more room for friends, fitness, and family than you think and much more… - Save hundreds on the best saunas on the market: HERE [https://www.heavenlyheatsaunas.com/MERRILL] (use code MERRILL) Save on an amazing cold plunge: HERE [https://tidd.ly/4fqqzf1] (use code MERRILL) - Thank You For Listening To The Chase Merrill Podcast - Get in touch in the comments below or head: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/chasecmerrill/] - Laura's Instagram: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/lvanderkam/] Laura's website: HERE [https://lauravanderkam.com/] - 0:00 Does Parkinson's Law Actually Hold Up 2:05 The List Of 100 Dreams 5:59 Build The Life, Time Saves Itself 8:19 One More Hour On Work You Love 10:54 Finding Your Venn Diagram Overlap 13:24 Big Time And The Abundance Mindset 15:08 Track Your 168 Hours 19:44 The Weekly Planning Session 21:56 Why You Should Plan On Friday 25:13 The Golden Hours After Work 28:16 Beating Your Electronic Hobbies 33:58 One Big Adventure, One Little Adventure 38:42 The Four Burners Myth 40:23 Do You Have To Specialize To Win 46:16 Closing Questions And Book Recs

Archaeologist: The Superfoods Quietly Poisoning You - Bill Schindler - #72

Bill Schindler is an archaeologist, anthropologist, chef, and author. What did our ancestors actually know about food that we've forgotten? For millions of years, nearly every tool humans invented was built to make food safer and more nourishing, yet today we're surrounded by more food than ever and sicker for it. So what went wrong, and what would it take to eat like a human again? Expect to learn why almost every prehistoric technology was built around food, why the diet that healed you isn't the diet you should stay on forever, the only three foods on earth actually meant to be eaten, why the "superfoods" you've been told to eat are loaded with oxalates, how processed corn quietly killed hundreds of thousands of people, why humans have one of the weakest digestive tracts of any animal, and much more… - 0:00 From Mountain Men To Two-Million-Year-Old Tools 1:31 Every Ancient Technology Was About Food 4:39 The Shower Moment That Changed His Health 14:08 Absence Of Proof Is Not Proof Of Absence 16:49 How Peer Review Suppresses New Ideas 22:15 The Deer Study They Wouldn't Publish 27:00 The Diet That Healed You Isn't Forever 36:03 What "Processing" Actually Means 46:07 Why Every Plant Is Toxic 50:59 How Corn Killed Millions 1:02:21 Oxalates: The Glass Shards In Superfoods 1:06:47 Why You Should Eat Seasonally 1:19:20 The Truth About Fiber 1:24:54 Why Raw Food Diets Are Dangerous 1:32:38 Closing Questions & Book Recs - Save hundreds on the best saunas on the market: HERE [https://www.heavenlyheatsaunas.com/MERRILL] (use code MERRILL) Save on an amazing cold plunge: HERE [https://tidd.ly/4fqqzf1] (use code MERRILL) - Thank You For Listening To The Chase Merrill Podcast - Get in touch in the comments below or head: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/chasecmerrill/] - Bill's Instagram: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/drbillschindler/] Bill's website: HERE [https://modernstoneage.com/]

How To Become Addicted To Trusting Yourself - Cru Mahoney - #71

What does it actually take to stay disciplined for years without burning out? Most high performers learn to achieve through force — pushing harder, doing more, shaming themselves into action — until that approach quietly stops working. So what replaces willpower once it fails, and how do you build the kind of self-trust that makes hard things automatic? Expect to learn why the relationship you have with yourself is the root system for everything in your life, why force eventually stops working for every high performer, how fear and scarcity quietly sabotage the things you want most, why self-trust is really just data you collect on yourself, how to scale a daily promise small enough that you can keep it on your worst day, what running every single day for nearly 8 years actually teaches you about discipline and much more… - Save hundreds on the best saunas on the market: HERE [https://www.heavenlyheatsaunas.com/MERRILL] (use code MERRILL) Save on an amazing cold plunge: HERE [https://tidd.ly/4fqqzf1] (use code MERRILL) - Thank You For Listening To The Chase Merrill Podcast - Get in touch in the comments below or head: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/chasecmerrill/] - Cru's Instagram: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/crumahoney/] Cru's website: HERE [https://www.crumahoney.com/] Cru's podcast: HERE [https://open.spotify.com/show/1nmsenCgbOrYwb3LSNtdCz?si=e1a37155f619405c] - 0:00 The Self-Relationship Is The Root System 2:26 Why Force Stops Working 4:15 Fear, Scarcity, And "I Don't Need This" 11:14 Staying Abundant When You're Scared About Rent 15:47 "If I'm Expecting To Lose, I'm Asking To Lose" 21:00 Peak Awareness In Peak Resistance 23:19 The Run Streak And The Choice To Be Present 28:11 Attitude Versus Just Doing The Hard Thing 33:29 Joy Is A Competitive Advantage In Suffering 38:17 Do You Want It, Or Want To Want It? 40:06 Self-Trust Is Just Stacked Data 42:11 One Mile, Not Five 47:37 How He Synthesizes His Ideas 58:47 Creativity Is Ownership 1:04:42 Closing Questions: Guests And Books

EQ Predicts Life Success Better Than IQ - Genny Rumancik - #70

Genny Rumancik is an emotional intelligence educator, author, and founder of The EQ School. What does it actually take to change? We're taught that discipline, willpower, and pushing harder are the levers of growth — yet most people find themselves cycling through the same patterns no matter how hard they try. So what's actually driving those patterns beneath the surface, and how do you break them without burning yourself down in the process? Expect to learn what the four pillars of emotional intelligence are and why self-awareness underpins all of them, why procrastination is not a character flaw but a nervous system protection strategy, how to locate your sense of self internally rather than through external validation, what the emotional contracts you signed in childhood are doing to your adult behavior, why sustainable change only comes through compassion rather than shame, what Internal Family Systems therapy reveals about the parts of you that quietly sabotage your own goals, and much more… - Save hundreds on the best saunas on the market: HERE [https://www.heavenlyheatsaunas.com/MERRILL] (use code MERRILL) Save on an amazing cold plunge: HERE [https://tidd.ly/4fqqzf1] (use code MERRILL) - Thank You For Listening To The Chase Merrill Podcast - Get in touch in the comments below or head: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/chasecmerrill/] - Genny's Instagram: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/theeqschool/] Genny's website: HERE [https://theeqschool.co/] Genny's book: HERE [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/767885/the-wisdom-of-feeling-by-genny-rumancik/] - 0:00 The Four Pillars of Emotional Intelligence 2:28 Procrastination Is Not a Character Flaw 6:03 Waking Up in Productivity Debt 11:05 Anchoring Your Identity Inside, Not Outside 15:54 Emotional Self-Management in Practice 18:42 People Pleasing and Setting Boundaries 20:16 Social Awareness and Relationship Management 25:32 Why EQ Predicts Success More Than IQ 30:12 Emotional Inheritance and Generational Patterns 35:59 Why Men Struggle With Emotional Processing 38:23 How Genny Got Into This Work 43:31 The Wisdom of Feeling — The Book 48:22 Internal Family Systems and Parts Work 56:31 The War of Art and Resistance